( Alternative title: The E-Waste Comedy? )
"Hurricane Joe Benson" is locked up in a UK prison, away from his family. His home is at stake, his retirement at stake, because he pleaded guilty to violating GUIDELINES. Guidelines designed by policy wonks, in response to lies, to protect Africans (from Africans)...
No offense to E-Stewards... but instead of donating to BAN.org, environmentalists should be contributing to a class action defamation lawsuit.
Here is a link to the "Guidelines", developed in Europe, to save Africans from Africans. The "Guidelines" are behind "Project Eden", INTERPOL's effort to divert some international police away from ivory, drug, and guns dealers to focus on television repair in Ghana and Nigeria. Those jobs are documented by UN research to reuse 91% of the material they import, generating 6 times the average wages in those countries, and providing access to mass media without mining, refining, generating carbon, etc.
The whole thing reminds me a bit of "Escape to Chimp Eden", the Animal Planet program hosted by Eugene Cussons. Cussons rescues poor chimpanzees and brings them safely from bad zoos to good zoos. Except that the technicians in Africa are by far smarter, and know more, than either the "experts" on "e-waste" in Europe or the chimps. They could give Kyle Wiens of IFIXIT a run for his money. This whole idea of guidelines to train Chinese and Africans to properly repair and recycle... is a tragedy in the making.
By far the worst #WhiteSaviorComplex film I have seen is Dannonitzer's "The E-Waste Tragedy". I don't like to drop the "r" word, but the film takes the word of a bigot who makes money selling shameful images and uses them to raise money for his own salary, and to put technicians in jail.
Alternative title: The E-Waste Comedy? continued
"Hurricane Joe Benson" is locked up in a UK prison, away from his family. His home is at stake, his retirement at stake, because he pleaded guilty to violating GUIDELINES. Guidelines designed by policy wonks, in response to lies, to protect Africans (from Africans)...
No offense to E-Stewards... but instead of donating to BAN.org, environmentalists should be contributing to a class action defamation lawsuit.
Here is a link to the "Guidelines", developed in Europe, to save Africans from Africans. The "Guidelines" are behind "Project Eden", INTERPOL's effort to divert some international police away from ivory, drug, and guns dealers to focus on television repair in Ghana and Nigeria. Those jobs are documented by UN research to reuse 91% of the material they import, generating 6 times the average wages in those countries, and providing access to mass media without mining, refining, generating carbon, etc.
The whole thing reminds me a bit of "Escape to Chimp Eden", the Animal Planet program hosted by Eugene Cussons. Cussons rescues poor chimpanzees and brings them safely from bad zoos to good zoos. Except that the technicians in Africa are by far smarter, and know more, than either the "experts" on "e-waste" in Europe or the chimps. They could give Kyle Wiens of IFIXIT a run for his money. This whole idea of guidelines to train Chinese and Africans to properly repair and recycle... is a tragedy in the making.
By far the worst #WhiteSaviorComplex film I have seen is Dannonitzer's "The E-Waste Tragedy". I don't like to drop the "r" word, but the film takes the word of a bigot who makes money selling shameful images and uses them to raise money for his own salary, and to put technicians in jail.
Alternative title: The E-Waste Comedy? continued
